[Foundation-l] New Project Process

Fajro faigos at gmail.com
Thu Apr 5 06:33:15 UTC 2012


On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Jürgen Fenn
<schneeschmelze at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am 3. April 2012 22:22 schrieb Samuel Klein <sjklein at hcs.harvard.edu>:
>
> I would like to add another option: Who not merge all projects into
> Wikipedia proper? The lack in participation in the sister projects is
> largely due to the fact that hardly anyone knows about them. Wikipedia
> is the only Wikimedia brand people know of.

That is because there has been no serious attempt to
promote/visibilize the other brands.

I think all the sister projects should be displayed at the top of the
site like the Google products in their new black bar.

Also, the Wikimedia brand / logo should not be hidden at the bottom of
the footer in every page!

I made some suggestions about this some time ago:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-December/063014.html

> If the sister projects were living in their own
> namespaces within Wikipedia this would be different.

Maybe... or maybe they will be namespaces that hardly anyone knows
about because no one linked them in visible places.

And the "In the news" section of the Main Page of Wikipedia should be
a Wikinews one.

-- 
Fajro




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